Scott Lively served up this bit of self-aggrandizement in his April 12 WorldNetDaily column:
Arguably, my biggest impact on the world was publishing “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party” in 1995 with my co-author Kevin Abrams, an Orthodox Jewish Holocaust researcher. Together with a distribution alliance of thousands of Orthodox rabbis in the U.S., we so thoroughly debunked the LGBT movement’s attempt to fabricate a “Gay Holocaust” under the Nazis comparable to the Jewish Holocaust that they were forced to abandon their plans and along with them the “Pink Triangle” (used to identify the relatively few homosexuals in Nazi work camps – not the death camps) as the primary symbol of their movement in the 1980s and early ’90s. The LGBTs then stole the rainbow from the Black Panthers and Jesse Jackson’s “Rainbow Coalition” to replace the triangle.
That book earned me a permanent spot on the SPLC’s hate map and top-level cancellation long before the “cancel culture” ever started.
In fact, Lively’s book was discredited almost immediately after it came out in 2013, laden with factual errors and undercut by the fact that Lively conducted no research into the relevant primary archival documents.
The sad thing is that Lively is portraying his foisting a discredited book on people as “my biggest impact on the world.” Seems pretty sad, actually.